{"id":8739,"date":"2011-01-26T13:01:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=8739"},"modified":"2011-01-26T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T20:21:07","slug":"wed-update-circa-reopens-chick-fil-a-servant-or-sucker-peabody-wine-club-goose-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/wed-update-circa-reopens-chick-fil-a-servant-or-sucker-peabody-wine-club-goose-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed update: Circa reopens, Chick-Fil-A, Servant or Sucker?, Peabody wine club, Goose party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.circamemphis.com\/\">Circa by John Bragg<\/a> re-opens tonight. It closed its Downtown location in October (which has since turned into Bar None) in order to find a place out east to be closer to its customer base. Yesterday a co-worker asked me how to get to the new Circa. I replied, &#8220;I think you take Poplar out past the 240 and then turn left or something.&#8221; That&#8217;s pretty much how I give directions to anything in East Memphis. Actually the restaurant is at 6150 Poplar.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Bar None, I was in there last night and took a photo of the 1-pound Bar None burger. I don&#8217;t have the camera with me to download pics, though, so it will have to wait for tonight. The Nuh-Uh Girl, supposedly on a diet, was all over an order of crawfish dip, and of course she had to have a bite of the burger.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the Nuh-Uh Girl&#8230; she&#8217;s really, really hoping that February 2 is a cloudy day. That&#8217;s because Memphis-area Chick-Fil-A locations will give away free spicy chicken biscuits if the groundhog does not see his shadow. A portion of all sales that day will be donated to MIFA.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting event I just found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtownmemphis.com\/events.asp\">Downtown Memphis events page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Servant or Sucker? Wise and Compassionate Ways to Help the Poor<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst United Methodist Church. 204 N Second. (901) 527-8362. Dinner: 6pm; program: 6:45pm. $7 per person; $15 per family. In this five-part series each Wednesday evening, First Church member, Larry Chitwood, leads the discussion concerning appropriate, Christ-centered actions addressing poverty on a personal or organizational level. Participants will learn steps to take to be an effective servant without getting suckered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like a good way to learn how to serve those truly in need, without supporting the lifestyle of some of the scam artists who operate Downtown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Edit: Oops, I posted that the Peabody wine club starts today. It&#8217;s actually next Wednesday, February 2.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also don&#8217;t forget that the Silly Goose&#8217;s second birthday party is tonight at 9. Live music from Jeremy Stanfill and shot specials. Other events going on tonight: Tiger home game vs. UCF at 7, FedExForum; poker night at Bardog, 7:30; Pint Night at South of Beale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa by John Bragg re-opens tonight. It closed its Downtown location in October (which has since turned into Bar None) in order to find a place out east to be closer to its customer base. Yesterday a co-worker asked me how to get to the new Circa. I replied, &#8220;I think you take Poplar out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/wed-update-circa-reopens-chick-fil-a-servant-or-sucker-peabody-wine-club-goose-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wed update: Circa reopens, Chick-Fil-A, Servant or Sucker?, Peabody wine club, Goose party&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8742,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739\/revisions\/8742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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